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Overcome Quotes

I don’t know how to overcome this perception that I’m extravagant.

– Frank Gehry

Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.

– Danny Meyer

If you’ve been massive and it’s all slid away, you tend to get written off. It’s quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I’ve got this problem with nostalgia.

– Gary Numan

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

– Francis Bacon

When I was in the Maine Senate and proposed Maine RX – a plan to lower prescription drug costs by forcing the pharmaceutical companies to negotiate – I was told by many people that it was too big an idea, and we couldn’t overcome opposition from the drug companies.

– Chellie Pingree

In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.

– Dana Rohrabacher

I’ve played shows with injuries before but unfortunately cannot overcome having no voice.

– Eric Church

There’s a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing.

– Ed Smith

In the strength of the Lord we can do and endure and overcome all things.

– David A. Bednar

What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You’ve got to be so deeply in love with your subject that when curve balls are thrown, when hurdles are put in place, you’ve got the energy to overcome them.

– Neil deGrasse Tyson

Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!

– Noam Chomsky

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

– Donald Tusk

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

– Francis Beaumont

It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career.

– Carlton Fisk

My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.

– Gabby Douglas

We all get damned in our lives, and there are ripple effects. One thing can determine a life, and it’s hard to overcome that if the event is really traumatic. Your life is completely condemned by it.

– Matthias Schoenaerts

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

– Fidel Castro

Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of.

– Michael Schudson

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

– Dorothy Thompson

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one’s feeling of honour.

– Georg Brandes

I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don’t write, because books often need periods of percolation.

– Nancy Pickard

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

– Ernest Shackleton

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

– George Santayana

It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft.

– Dave Reichert

I don’t know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.

– Nina Fedoroff

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.

– Markus Wolf

While we rejoice in the new possibilities open to humanity, we also see the dangers arising from these possibilities, and we must ask ourselves how we can overcome them.

– Pope Benedict XVI

I replaced three joints in my hips and one in my knee. I’m hoping that other knee doesn’t have to be done. It’s one of the toughest things to overcome.

– Phil Jackson

I think with challenges, you either overcome them or you fall behind and become a statistic.

– Martin Klebba

The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.

– Noam Chomsky

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